L. Mencken, who became an early mentor and whose cigar-waving directness and contrariness appealed to him.
Romney and Ryan won with substance, directness, integrity, respect, clarity, facts, commitment, inspiration, and leadership.
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He was ours - from his craggy appearance and laconic style to his directness and honesty.
Next came a two-year stint at McKinsey for what she considers a welcome dose of American directness.
But self-doubt and soul-searching can be a pose just like anything else, and directness does not always prevent self-consciousness.
Obama was criticized as "too circular" while McCain was praised for his directness.
They come in two types, known with admirable directness as type-I and type-II.
True, there have been funnier productions, but Sam Mendes's has rare qualities: directness, clarity, richness of feeling and Simon Russell Beale.
Jeannie (Tilly Hatcher), who runs the store, gets around in a wheelchair (and Bujalski films her ordinary challenges with unsentimental directness).
There is little doubt Israelis' penchant for directness is partly a product of living amid the harsh realities of the Middle East.
This is hardly fresh material, but Derek Cianfrance, the director and co-writer, has fashioned it into something of startling directness and intensity.
People are more likely to understand an explicit rather than an implicit message, especially in western societies where directness is considered a virtue.
I'd always listened to kind of band putting out pop songs that were using blues as that kind of template, that kind of directness.
But in the short run her unpompous, down-to-earth, jargon-free directness should bring a gust of fresh air to the stale, grey-suited, male-dominated, wheeler-dealing atmosphere of German politics.
Moreover, the sheer sexiness of "A Little Night Music" (which is, among other things, a musical about the difference between sex and love) comes across with breath-catching directness.
The poets represented here feel the tempestuousness of the times on their pulses, and their language its terseness, its brutal directness brings those feelings to life with a terrible sense of conviction.
And I can tell you that the frankness and the directness and the no nonsense approach that I think you're all familiar with, coming from him, is something that will clearly come through in his memoirs.
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The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.
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